March 24, 2009

Billy Baldwin Lecture Tomorrow

I am very excited about James Archer Abbott's lecture about Billy Baldwin tomorrow evening at Evergreen House. It is part of their House Beautiful series of lectures each spring. Last year, I attended Archer's lecture about Maison Jansen, which was so educational.

As you may know, Billy Baldwin was born in Baltimore and was actually friends of the family who owned Evergreen House. Here's what he had to say about Evergreen "The gates of Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I was surrounded by the best art and music... I knew I could never return to the life I had led before."

I am very excited to be joined at the Lecture and for dinner afterwards by LaviniaLab, the winner of the I Married Adventure book give-away over the weekend. She's just down the road in Washington, DC, so this was a perfect way to get together. She's even told me she is bringing a present for me! A copy of Billy Baldwin Remembers, a book that I've been looking for!

I'm missing a lecture on Entertaining during the Gilded Age at the Dooley Mansion tonight (poor timing minutes before the children are given dinner and the bedtime process has begun.) I'm envious of your opportunity.

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Pigtown Design is the musings of Meg Fairfax Fielding, a Baltimore-based writer, photographer and fund-raiser, who explores design, architecture, culture, and current events in Baltimore and around the world.